Two weeks didn’t show up: After two men in Putin’s inner circle, the ground seemed to go down TVNOVINY.sk – TVNOVINY.sk

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has not appeared in public for almost two weeks. This was pointed out on Wednesday by the German public television and radio Deutsche Welle, which refers to the Russian media.
Shoigu last appeared in public on March 11, when he participated in the handing over of state decorations to soldiers who took part in a military operation in Ukraine. They have not seen the head of the Russian Ministry of Defense in public for 12 days. 28 days have passed since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, points out Deutsche Welle.
Russian media have pointed out that until March 11, Shoigu appeared in Russian news almost every day. Dmitry Treschinin, a journalist on the Mediazona news portal, was the first to point out the disappearance of Russia’s defense minister. Investigative journalists, citing unnamed sources in the nearby Shoigu district, say the minister has heart problems.
In addition, the media noted that the chief of staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov, had disappeared from the news. The public events in which he would take part have not been written since 11 March either. Most recently, on March 11, there was news of his talks with his Turkish counterpart Yashar Güler. Putin’s longtime ally Anatoly Chubais allegedly left Russia A close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin allegedly left the Russian government councils and fled the country. According to Reuters, he is an experienced reformer and special representative for the environment, Anatoly Chubais. TASR took over the news from Sky News.
According to the report, Chubais is allegedly against Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine and does not intend to return to Russia. It would be the highest-ranking Russian official to leave the country.
Chubais’s resignation as Special Representative for the Climate and his departure from the Russian Federation were reported on Wednesday by The Guardian, as well as by the CCN news station, which appealed to the Russian news agency TASS.
According to Bloomberg, Chubais, 66, is one of the few economic reformers of the 1990s who remained in Putin’s government and maintained close ties with Western officials. He became known as the Minister of Finance in the government of former President Boris Yeltsin.
According to Bloomberg, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov did not immediately comment on his departure.
According to CNN, Chubais himself has not yet independently confirmed his departure from Russia or the reasons for his resignation. He has been the Special Representative for the Environment since 2020.
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the Russian government has stepped up pressure on domestic critics of the invasion. On March 16, Putin warned that he would cleanse Russia of “scum and traitors” whom he accuses of secretly working for the United States and its allies.
In the face of economic collapse, Russian President West has accused the West of wanting to destroy Russia, Bloomberg said.